theatrical
adjective
of or relating to the theater or dramatic presentations.
untheatrical
-
a word derived from
theatrical.
Example Sentences
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Though it was unnerving at first, Chastain adapted to Lloyd’s extreme minimalism, which is so austere that it can feel almost untheatrical.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
His language is flat and restrained – almost self-consciously untheatrical – even when telling the most dramatic stories.
From The Guardian ● May 21, 2020
Not only are the 16 songs banal, but they’re untheatrical: Virtually all of them are here’s-how-I’m-feeling-right-this-second power ballads that stop the action of the show dead instead of pushing it forward to the final curtain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2018
The play's "circuitously overworked dialogue has the literary feel of a stretched-out short story, and while the production is certainly Actor-y, it's also resolutely untheatrical."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2014
Here you may read how, after the short agony of nerves was over, he faced death with a placid and untheatrical bravery, than which the long records of the scaffold show nothing finer.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 by Various
